“if Obama is nominated and loses the election, the claim will be that he was defeated because this country is so racist.”

This is one of the reasons why I started moving away from the left (started in High School), the simple acts of baseless accusations and exaggeration.

In my dorm someone had an Obama sticker on their door, and apparently someone ripped it off. The person who lives in the room and who put the sticker on the door left a note telling the person who ripped the sticker off to “F Off” and states “I’m sorry you hate black people.” Now I don’t know the entire story behind why the sticker was ripped off the door, but it’s bullshit like that that makes it hard for me to take some people seriously.

If you vote for Obama you’re part of history, if you don’t, you’re a racist.

Great options I have, it’s going to be fun election season on campus in the fall.

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If one adds up the total delegates to be awarded by primaries and uses a winner-take-all system, eliminating caucuses, Hillary leads by about 500 delegates. If you add in all the caucus states (almost all of which Obama won), she still leads, although by “only” about 150 delegates.
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Now that’s interesting.

The goal of the democrates is a cultural full-proof experiment of what America SHOULD be like. A sort of affirmative action at the presidental level. I am saying sort of OK. A black as president! Whow!!! that will shut the mouths of all that did not beleive in this land of opportunity and plenty, at the same time it will put to rest all remaining “afro-centric” blacks complaint and usual diatribes. Unfortunatley, it is Hillary who will be paying for all the sins of the democrates if not to say the whole nation.

Of course we have not yet arrive at judgment day. The question is whether America will accept this bargain. As far as I am concerned, this election is bogus, specially if Hillary finds its her way out.

To accuse someone of racism is almost always ungraceful and fantastical.

As we move through our tasks in life, it is perfectly appropriate to take strategic action which is based upon a suspicion that another person is racist. It would be silly to discount our own observation and instinct about that person.

However, we are only playing strategic odds. We are guessing. As we cannot see into the mind and heart of another, we will rarely, if ever, know the truth of the matter. How many times have any of us seen or heard an overt action or admission of racism? If we really think about it, for most of us, the answer is: not many.

Therefore, though it is smart for us to be strategic and to play odds, it is fantasy for us to believe we somehow do know the truth. To believe such is to not live in reality. We don’t know the actual truth, and we will never know. To accuse someone of racism is almost always ungraceful and fantastical.

Theres only one way to stop Obama. That would be stopping McCain from being his opponent.

You have to be kidding. Obama is totally ignorant of foreign affairs and military matters. He has shown no indication of even wanting to understand radical Islam. His foreign policy advisors are disasterous.

Two of McCain’s global warming positions are OK: the insistance that China and India be involved and the need for alternate sources of energy. Cap and trade will get a lot of scrutiny. Obama would be likely to cave on China and India to prove that we aren’t imperialists on nuclear energy because of the tree huggers. You may not have noticed , but the Europeans are having some second thoughts about drastic environmental measures or are not fulfilling their own goals. As they back down, McCain will find less support for his economy-damaging measures here at home.

Obama is the least prepared major presidential candidate since William Jennings Bryan. He has been deeply involved with a black power church and a radical wacko minister for twentyyears. And as the cyanide cherry on top of that sundae, he has a long working relationship with Weather Underground bombers.

How can this possibly be? Who is writing this unbelievable political novel?

If not young Obama himself, David Axelrod, maybe?

Reality check: there will be global warming legislation. It can be market oriented like McCain’s or it can be European like Obama’s. But it is coming.

No Terrye, we dont have to have legislation and regulation for a problem that doesnt exist. Lets stop playing into liberal shams. Honestly, I dont know what you people stand for.

More interestingly, in the same poll, 29% of responding Democrats think she should run as an Independent if she loses the party nomination!

How about this scenario: Hilary runs as an Independent to provide an option to disenfranchised Democrats and Ron Paul or Mitt Romney run as Independents to provide an option for disenfranchised Republicans.

I, like most conservative Republicans, would love to have a viable alternative to the green-neocon ding-bat McCain.

Followed by another poster:

“If McCain makes this even more unpalatable than it already is, we’ll take 4 years of Obama and welcome in the tide of new-found conservative converts that are likely to be had.”

I always find it amusing when the people a post is directed at show *exactly* what they are being accused of (especially when they state it with a large amount of indignation).

I think as time come near to election day and we continue to see more Obama more will come to Terrye’s conclusion (there have been quite a few wake up to that already). Some never will - they so *clearly* see how this would usher in the Golden Age.

It’s pretty much the same mental process that many of the leftist use, it isn’t based on reason as much as it is on feelings. Therefore you can not reason them out of the idea.

Letting your opponent have the power and their train wreck causing your side to win will happen the year after a working communist govt is found. So far those two things have happened about the same number of time (zero) with the former being tried more often. But then this is reason and that can never counter feelings (and I will get railed at with a large bunch of anger and very very little reason).

So far, coming thus far, I’m getting a better education of what a McCain presidency will look like, and it looks like a populist sell-out that could include Iraq, and Supreme Court justices.

Instead of more of we conservatives forced by political necessity to see things the way RHINO’s do, why dont we allow all of America to see what voting for expediency and accommodation costs you?

That might be a better plan.

Sometimes it is wise and reasonable to win the coin toss and elect to go on defense. Especially when your offense has proven an inability to score, and the other team offers up its 3rd string rookies to be handling the ball.

I contend that 2004 was that way as well. Over confident Dems nominated an empty-suit gas bag, figuring the Anyone But Bush folks would line up behind him. It didn’t work out that way, of course. I was Anybody But Bush, until Kerry “reported for duty.” Interestingly, I was only Anybody But Kerry until the ambulance-chaser joined the ticket.

Obama is so awful, he makes Edwards look good to me.

BTW, had the dems nominated Lieberman in 2004, I firmly believe he would have won. He would have gotten my Ohio swing vote.

Yeah but not every police chief, mayor, governor, Supreme Court justice, congressman, senator, or professional sports manager is African American…so you have no point. Except raising the question why are there not more African Americans in these positions.

News for you folks. Racism and elements of racism do exist. When you have a guy in WV saying he would choose McCain over Obama because he wants a, ‘full blooded American” President you can’t explain that any other way but racist.

But this does not mean if Obama looses it will be because of racism. True, some will say that. Just as some are saying Hillary’s loss is because of sexism. I’m sure someone somewhere claims the hatred of Bush has something to do with his Christian faith and I know that many say criticisms of Israel are signs of anti-Semitism.
There is always someone somewhere trying to drag this stuff into the conversation when it is not warranted.